Yes, they can be overly formal and staged and goofy at times, but that doesn’t mean their heart isn’t in the right place. Wedding photos attempt to do the impossible — they try to capture a couple’s purest moments of true love and the joy of their friends and family as they witness it.

Why LGBTQ weddings as opposed to any others? Because there’s an extra energy in those pictures. Maybe it’s because, just 20 years ago, no one could imagine that marriage was a possibility for gay and lesbian couples and now it’s legal in every state in the U.S.

We spent an afternoon swooning over wedding photos on Instagram and just couldn’t get over these 12 photos of lesbian couples on their wedding days. Maybe there’s just something about seeing two beaming brides in one picture. Or maybe it’s just the palpable sense of happiness you can see in the faces of these women.

But I challenge you to look at these 12 images from lesbian weddings and not feel your heart swell just a tiny bit. The magic in these photos is undeniable.